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Wildfires in Bursa

Bursa, Türkiye: 13 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 17 districts since 2016, burning 7,972 hectares inside the region. The largest was Harmancık in July 2025, with 4,487 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
7,972ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.7%
10,819 km²
fires
13
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 17
Largest fire
4,487ha
Harmancık · July 2025
Inhabitants
2,051,017
3.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 82 % · 32 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 73 % · 35 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 9° · 60 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 8° · 64 % · 40 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 6° · 50 % · 30 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 10° · 40 % · 19 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 13° · 22 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 13° · 45 % · 21 km/h

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Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Harmancık 6,576 inhabitants 3,335 ha · 9.0 %
  2. Orhaneli 19,492 inhabitants 1,306 ha · 1.5 %
  3. Gürsu 91,339 inhabitants 1,239 ha · 10 %
  4. Büyükorhan 10,042 inhabitants 791 ha · 1.5 %
  5. Yenişehir 53,704 inhabitants 550 ha · 0.7 %
  6. Osmangazi 263 ha · 0.4 %
  7. Mustafakemalpaşa 100,696 inhabitants 171 ha · 0.1 %
  8. Karacabey 83,115 inhabitants 164 ha · 0.1 %
  9. Kestel 65,256 inhabitants 153 ha · 0.4 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest50 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland26 %
  • Agricultural areas9.8 %
  • Other natural land6.1 %
  • Mixed forest5.7 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub1.1 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.6 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202566,194 Harmancık 4,487 ha
20243806 Büyükorhan 478 ha
20231373 Yenişehir 373 ha
20221160 Osmangazi 160 ha
20192440 Mustafakemalpaşa 336 ha

All fires in Bursa · 14

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Street Map (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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